Japanese Art and Delightful Mix of Birds Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The celebrated Utagawa Hiroshige was born into the stillness and ritual grace of the […]
Month: May 2026
Mali Crisis: Russia Seeks to Stem Islamist Encroachment on Bamako
Mali Crisis: Russia Seeks to Stem Islamist Encroachment on Bamako Murad Makhmudov, Noriko Watanabe, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Mali’s structural fragility was […]
Japanese Art and Veneer of Red Mountains by Sawako Utsumi
Japanese Art and Veneer of Red Mountains by Sawako Utsumi Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The art of Sawako Utsumi drapes the world in a luminous […]
Japan Slumps to OECD 24th: Geopolitics and Debt
Japan Slumps to OECD 24th: Geopolitics and Debt Kanako Mita, Sawako Utsumi, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi inherits the same unresolved malaise […]
Geopolitics of Japan: China and Russia
Geopolitics of Japan: China and Russia Kanako Mita, Sawako Utsumi, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan confronts a formidable convergence […]
Japan Art and Watanabe Shikō (1683–1755)
Japan Art and Watanabe Shikō (1683–1755) Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Watanabe Shikō (1683–1755) revealed a rare artistic sensitivity from an early age, his vision shaped within […]
Pakistan Military Strikes against Afghanistan test the Fragile Ceasefire
Pakistan Military Strikes against Afghanistan test the Fragile Ceasefire Kanako Mita, Sawako Utsumi, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times China under Xi Jinping continues its diplomatic […]
Zen Buddhist Art: Shunso Joshu
Zen Buddhist Art: Shunso Joshu Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The Japanese Zen Buddhist monk Shunso Jōshū, born in the mid-eighteenth century, came of […]
Sahel Regional Crisis – Islamists and Geopolitical Rifts (Mali)
Sahel Regional Crisis – Islamists and Geopolitical Rifts (Mali) Kanako Mita, Sawako Utsumi, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The Sahel has long endured […]
Japan Art and Gyoshū Hayami
Japan Art and Gyoshū Hayami Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The highly esteemed Gyoshū Hayami created a world of quiet wonder within the span of a […]
Iran and Strait of Hormuz: Israel Fears Trump U-turn
Iran and Strait of Hormuz: Israel Fears Trump U-turn Noriko Watanabe, Michiyo Tanabe, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times It initially appeared that the Israel […]
Lebanon and Hezbollah: State Within A State
Lebanon and Hezbollah: State Within A State Kanako Mita, Sawako Utsumi, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Several years ago, Lebanon convulsed as vast […]
Japan Art and Utamaro (Birds)
Japan Art and Utamaro (Birds) Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806) breathed art as if it were the very air of the Edo Period itself — […]
Iran Kills Its Youth: State Tyranny (Nika Shakarami) Continues
Iran Kills Its Youth: State Tyranny (Nika Shakarami) Continues Murad Makhmudov, Noriko Watanabe, and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The shadow cast by the Iranian […]